Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek

Matthew Scarborough, Ph.D. (2017), University of Cambridge, is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the linguistic prehistory of Greek with special emphasis on the comparative study of the Ancient Greek dialects, Indo-European etymology and lexicography, and linguistic phylogenetics.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesAbbreviation of Corpora and Reference WorksGrammatical and Linguistic AbbreviationsEpigraphic and Papyrological AbbreviationsNote on the Accentuation of Dialect FormsA Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names1 The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology1 Introduction2 The Notion of Aeolic in Antiquity3 19th Century Debates: Ahrens, Meister, and Hoffmann4 Twentieth Century Developments5 The Twenty-First Century: Problems and Methods, Old and New6 Resolving the Impasse: The Aims and Structure of This Work2 Methodological Preliminaries1 Introduction2 Methodological Considerations in the Selection of Isoglosses3 Sources and Methodological Issues4 The Data Collection for This Study5 Concluding Remarks3 The Core Aeolic Isoglosses1 Introduction2 The Position of Mycenaean in Classification and Relative Chronology3 Some Preliminary Assumptions: Exclusion of Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Greek Synapomorphic Characters4 Common Innovations from Proto-Greek5 Conclusions4 The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses1 Introduction2 Isoglosses Shared by Two of Three Dialects3 Isoglosses Shared with Neighbouring Dialects4 Conclusions5 A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic1 Introduction2 The Probabilistic Method3 Evaluation: Application of the Clade Test to the Aeolic Data4 Discussion of Results and Some Relative Chronologies5 ConclusionsConcluding RemarksAppendix 1: Catalogue of Epigraphic ReferencesAppendix 2: Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss TablesBibliographyIndex